Psychophysical Approach Towards Conscious Repression of Affective Stimuli

• Authors: Remigiusz Szczepanowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper posited a psychophysical model of conscious repression of affective stimuli. Measurement of conscious repression employed a three-state threshold model of perception. The psychophysical model of repression was empirically justified with a backward masking paradigm. Given the masking data, it was shown that it is plausible that repression of affective information can occur for 41-ms stimulation. The psychophysical model of repression suggests that there is an inhibitory effect of access consciousness on subjective experience of emotional stimuli.

Keywords

EN

consciousness; repression; threshold model; availability; accessibility; fear

PL

świadomość; represja; model progowy; dostępność potencjalna; dostępność faktyczna; lęk

• Publisher: Committee on Psychological Sciences PAS, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
• Journal: Psychological Studies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 73-86

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-09-22

Contributors

author

Remigiusz Szczepanowski

• Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10167-011-0006-7